{"id":406,"date":"2007-07-06T19:04:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T23:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/07\/06\/universal-healthcare-terrorists-have-won\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T19:04:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T23:04:05","slug":"universal-healthcare-terrorists-have-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/07\/06\/universal-healthcare-terrorists-have-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Healthcare = Terrorists Have Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t believe me?\u00c2\u00a0 Then let these folks educate you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New York Sun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/57858?page_no=1\">tells us<\/a> that national healthcare brought all these scary terrorists to British shores.<\/li>\n<li>MSNBC helps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U1CLS_f_xlk&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmemo%2Ecom%2F\">illuminate<\/a> the fact that universal healthcare doesn&#8217;t just result in &#8220;foreign born medical practitioners, but <strong>*foreign*<\/strong> born&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 (cue ominous music)<\/li>\n<li>And reliable old Fox News helps us understand that the NHS is a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/07\/05\/fox-news-universal-health-care-breeds-terrorists\/\">breeding ground for terror<\/a>&#8221; (I think Strep is a close second, though.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last time I was in an NHS facility, they took a needle or three to my big toe.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll call my doctor on Monday to schedule an MRI to make sure that they didn&#8217;t implant some nefarious sleeper device.\u00c2\u00a0 It was 1987, but they&#8217;re sneaky bastards, you know.\u00c2\u00a0 Never can be too careful.\u00c2\u00a0 Credit to <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\">TPM<\/a> for keeping us abreast of the latest healthcare threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t believe me?\u00c2\u00a0 Then let these folks educate you: New York Sun tells us that national healthcare brought all these scary terrorists to British shores. MSNBC helps illuminate the fact that universal healthcare doesn&#8217;t just result in &#8220;foreign born medical practitioners, but *foreign* born&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 (cue ominous music) And reliable old Fox News helps us understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}